Blogs from Vatican City, Europe - page 14

Hey everyone! Today is our last day in Rome and we will be leaving for Barcelona Spain tonite by plane! We had a lot of fun in Venice and Rome, Italy. We took an overnight train to Venice from Paris and boy did that suck! We were going to do the same thing from barcelona to paris but we changed our minds and are now going to take the day train and spend an extra night in paris. Luckily for us though we had some really nice couchette mates who brought wine and scrabble to share with everyone. And Dave won the scrabble game by 3 points and i was shortly behind him. In Venice we got to go to the island of Murano to check out all the cool glass! The boat ride there was ... read more

Today we got up, checked out of the Village Roma, and headed for our first hotel. Heather’s parents (who I cannot thank enough) were nice enough to help us get some hotels while we are here to ease the stress of doing all hostels. As great as its been to be in hostels, hotels are more relaxing and safe, which makes seeing the sites a lot simpler. After today we are back in hostels for the next 7 days. I cannot believe we are 11 days into our trip. We are in our 7th city, 6th country, 4th language, and the money is so dwindling. Its hard to take it all in, and realize where we are, what we’re doing, and what we’re seeing. We took the metro up to the Vatican stop, and decided to ... read more

We took an overnight train last night and shared a car with 2 South Koreans and an italian. Everyone was 22, and we had some awesome conversation about what everyone thinks about the US. Also, as we have been here 9 days, 6 countries, and 4 launguages, we have realized one thing. Europe is Under Construction. You would think they are just building the place with everything under construction. I swear, you cannot go 5 minutes without seeing a major construction project. Not many of the great sites have been, but today some were. The Spanish Steps in Rome were being worked on, so they were not much to see. We saw the Colloseum, the Palatine, Circus Maximus, the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, and a bunch of the other famous sites in Old City. We are ... read more

HEY Brittany and i just got to rome yesterday night, and our hostel is soooo cool!! were in the middle of room changes right now, so that kind of sucks, but we get free internet at least. its storming out right now, which is too bad. well be touring the vatican and the colluseum in the rain. its so nice here so far, it kind of reminds me of milan a little bit!!! i better go, someone else wants to use the internet!!! take care everyone! love kat... read more

where to start where to start... well right now i just got back from a day in Rome with Rodney...we got up at 630am and took the train into the city...there is so much graffiti i cant believe it...anyways...our first stop was Vatican City and the line to get in was wayyyy super long so we just walked around the outside and took some pics we then saw a line to get into st.peters but then it was closed for 930 mass...so we just got back on the train and went to the colosseum and waited in a line for about 30 mins to get in...it was soooo crazy to see it....seeing it in pics and then to see it in person. man. im so lucky. we stayed there for a while just looking at stuff...then ... read more